COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

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    I'm so grateful for many things and I know I can't name them all but believe me I'm so grateful.  This year I have so much to be thankful for we moved into our first house we had our beautiful baby girl Zoey. So in tradition here comes my 10 things I'm grateful for.

1. BRANDON- He is truly an amazing husband to me.  He has been here for me a lot this year he stayed over night in an uncomfortable hospital room not only 2 nights but 3 nights this year to be with me.  I rely on him so much and I don't know what I would do without him.  He is an amazing dad to our little girl.  I just love watching them play together.  I love to see the smile on his face when she is staring into his eyes and hearing her say "da da".
2. OUR GIRLS- ZOEY- she is such a great joy and a wonderful blessing to us.  Each day we never take for granted this little girl.  We have enjoyed watching her grow. LEXY- for being our precious sweet angel and being a guardian angel to her little sister.  We love both of our daughters so much.
3. FAMILY- this year we added three new babies into our family. Zoey, Declyn, and Savannah.  I love them all so much.  Our family is a one of a kind family and we love them oh so much.  This year I'm grateful for everything that has happened in my life I wouldn't change a thing because it has made me who I am.  I'm so very grateful to my family for being there for me when I needed them the most 2 years ago the day Lexy was born.  It was a sad day but I'm so glad that my family and friends were able to come and get me to smile and to laugh while I was holding her in my arms.  I'm so happy to know that Lexy knew my laughter, my voice, my heartbeat from inside and knows how much I love her.  I'm so grateful for little miss Zoey for being such a happy, loving baby who is getting bigger everyday and learning new things all the time.  Like saying mama and dada they are the best sounds to hear.  I'm grateful for my mom she has been such a wonderful mum.  I'm grateful for my sister Laura she is one of the kindest most loving person I know.  I'm so grateful that we have been able to be pregnant twice together.  When I was little I thought all my babies were going to be the youngest cousins in the family but they aren't they have cousins the same age I'm so grateful for that.
4. OUR HOME- We moved into our home at the end of January and we have enjoyed having our own place.
5. OUR JOBS- I'm so grateful to have a job that can provide for our family and have insurance.
6. FRIENDS- we have some really great friends and were so thankful for them.
7. OUR SAVIOR- He is so amazing and we are so grateful for His love.
8. HEAVENLY FATHER- He is the reason we are so grateful for everything.
9. SMILES AND LAUGHTER- life would just be so dull if you couldn't laugh and smile they are one of the greatest expressions.  I love walking into Zoey's room after she has been asleep and seeing the biggest smile on her face.  I love seeing Brandon smile at his little girl and at me.
10. PEOPLE YOU HARDLY KNOW BUT THEY MAKE YOUR LIFE CHANGE: These last two years I have been taking my mom to Utah Valley Hospital to get her treatment.  In that time we have met such wonderful people with the biggest hearts and the positive attitudes.  This year I had only met him a couple of times but within those couple of times he had changed the way to view life.  He found out he had cancer a week before he came home from his mission.  He had an emergency surgery for his appendix  in a third world country and that is when they found tumors.  His story was an amazing story to hear.  You could feel how much he loved everyone.  We were with him for his last treatment and he said I'm going to go and enjoy the rest of my life I'm at peace.  Mom and I went to his memorial and for somebody that I only knew a couple of times I felt the amazing feeling of how he is in a better place and not in pain.  It was very clear how much he enjoyed his life hearing his best friend speak, his mission president speak, and his mom speak.  He only knew my name and I knew his and we shared stories when we were there and to me I'm so grateful to have only a couple of hours of knowing him but knowing that he helped me change.  So this year I'm grateful for getting to know him because he has been thought about at least once every week.  I remember to enjoy life to its fullest like he was able to.

Getting so Big

I can't believe it our little Zoey is going to be 8 months old this month.  I can't believe that 8 months ago I was holding our little girl in our arms and just cuddling with her.  Zoey is no longer content just hanging out in our arms for more than 2 minutes at a time.  Zoey has learned that there is so much to learn.  Like trying new foods she started eating solids in August starting with rice cereal, than she started getting the really yummy stuff avocados, peas, butternut squash, sweet potato, carrots.  My favorite face she has pulled was with beef and broth.  We have only given her that meat once because while it is one cute face it is also not fun to eat something you don't like.  Zoey has also been learning that she can roll over and sit up.  Zoey does so well with both she is now learning how to crawl she tries to just move being flat against the floor, than she does an amazing push up.  So she is getting there.  Zoey has also learned some sounds and when she cries she says "mama" it breaks my heart because she is crying but and the same time it is so sweet to hear "mama" come out of her mouth.  Zoey also has learned how to say "BA" I don't know what that is yet but she says it quite a bit.  For daddy she yells "ah" well you got to hear it but I think she thinks it means daddy.  Daddy and Zoey have "ah" yelling matches at each other and she gets the biggest smile when he "ah's" back at her.  I also was able to teach Zoey how to blow raspberries and it makes me laugh when she tries to blow raspberries on her toys.

ZOEY @ THE ZOO

ZOEY @ THE ZOO

SMILES FOR MOM

SMILES FOR DAD

PETTING AN ARMADILLO

DADDY AND ZOEY WITH A GORILLA

DADDY TELLING ZOEY ABOUT THE GORILLAS

GORILLA

I LOVE THIS PICTURE

AND THIS ONE DADDY'S FAVORITE ANIMAL

MOMMY AND ZOEY WITH THE ELEPHANTS MOMMY'S FAVORITE ANIMAL

I HAD TO GET THIS PICTURE BECAUSE OF THE DAY SHE WAS BORN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THIS IF YOU WERE IN THE ROOM. THEY HAD ME SITTING UP IN A CHAIR AND I WAS TOLD I LOOK LIKE A MOTHER HEN WELL HERE IS ME WITH MY CHICK IN OUR EAGLES NEST!

SHOWING ZOEY HER SOON TO BE FAVORITE MAMMAL

SEE THE SMILE SHE LOVES THEM

WE COULDN'T EVEN GET HER TO LOOK AT US FOR THE PHOTO

THIS COULD BE THE REASON WHY?

SMILES ALL AROUND WHAT WOULD YOU SAY YOU THINK SEA LIONS ARE HER FAVORITE?

WE GOT TO WATCH THEM DO TRICKS.

First time in a cart

Can you believe this she is 7 months old and is growing up so quickly.  One day though I will be able to say that she sleeps through out the night she only gets up once through out the night and this is okay with me.  Every couple of days she will sleep through out the night but that is when I get the worse sleep because I wake up when she should wake up.  Well anyway Brandon and I are shopping for Halloween outfits no telling what we are going to be but we had fun looking today.  Well we were in Shopko and I just got done changing her and was going to put her back in the car seat. When she through a fit she sat straight up in her seat and clung onto the sides of the car seat. So I thought lets see how well she sits up in the cart. I moved the car seat and put her in it and as soon as she was sitting she was smiling.  Zoey did very well for her first time she clung onto the back with her little hands when she was feeling unsure that she could sit up.

Halloween Craft Party

Halloween Party with my Friends:

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I want to see how many of my friends actually read my blog anymore.  I was thinking that it would be fun to get together for a pinterest Halloween craft night.  I would like to make some cute and fun decorations for Halloween this year.  If anyone is interested let me know I would like to do it in about 2 weeks.

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